“With our combined solutions, Proximal Data and Micron are changing the
face of the virtualized enterprise data center and delivering a unique
new solution for maximizing virtual machine density and performance,”
said Ed Doller, vice president and general manager of Micron’s
enterprise SSD Division. “Customers using Proximal Data’s AutoCache
software with Micron’s P400e SATA or P320h PCIe solutions will
dramatically improve their ability to support more business applications
in virtualized environments while realizing the benefits of greater
storage performance, endurance and data reliability.”

“By supporting Micron’s leading enterprise solid-state storage, we are
providing enterprises with higher levels of efficiency in how their
virtual machines process storage I/O. As a result, they can get more out
of their virtualized servers and lower their total cost of ownership,”
said Rory Bolt, CEO of Proximal Data. “With AutoCache, we offer a
next-generation solution in server virtualization optimization, focused
on improving virtual machine density and performance without increasing
latency or impacting IT operations.”

Proximal Data’s recently
announced AutoCache software works seamlessly within a hypervisor
such as VMware ESXi to increase VM density up to three times with
absolutely no impact on IT operations. AutoCache also does not require
agents in guest operating systems. AutoCache places hot I/O into the
Micron flash device to intelligently supply priority data traffic to all
VMs. By removing the I/O bottleneck, VM density can be increased and
efficiency is improved while minimizing system resource usage. This
frees up CPU capacity to support more business applications. AutoCache
is also integrated within VMware management environments (vCenter,
vSphere) and does not impact processes such as those conducted by
vMotion.

Micron’s P400e SATA SSD provides reliable high performance for
read-intensive applications and serves as a primary drive in
applications that need advanced endurance and data reliability. Micron’s
P320h is a low-latency, high-IOPS PCIe SSD providing the highest read
throughput in the industry and the ideal solution for optimizing
applications with heavy read access. Both drives feature high lifetime
endurance, enterprise-level data protection and outstanding power
efficiency.

Proximal Data will be exhibiting at VMworld
2012 (Booth# 522), Aug. 26-30 in San Francisco, where they
will be raffling a Micron P400e drive.

Micron Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: MU) is one of the world’s leading
providers of advanced semiconductor solutions. Through its worldwide
operations, Micron manufactures and markets a full range of DRAM, NAND
and NOR flash memory, as well as other innovative memory technologies,
packaging solutions and semiconductor systems for use in leading-edge
computing, consumer, networking, embedded and mobile products. www.micron.com.